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The Augusta News-Review - May 3, 1973, John Swint Appointed And Sworn In On New Tax Board Wk < ’ " J rir O By R.L. Oliver Black Richmond County businessman John Swint was appointed to one of six positions on the newly created board of tax appraisers, by the Richmond County Commissioners Tuesday. Swint along with, Jack Baxley, L.T. Morgan, Grady Jenkins, Mrs. Barbara M. Scott and Gene I. Weinberger were named to the newly created board on a motion proposed by Commissioner John Anderson and seconded by Commissioner Edward M. Spelman Graduate Acts On "Doctors" Remembered by many Augustans as Carlene Gowdy, actress Marie Thomas has joined NBC Television Network’s daytime drama, “The Doctors”. Miss Thomas portrays Laurie James, a former nurse who Crowning Os Miss Essence The calmination of the Miss Essence Contest at First Mt. Moriah Baptist Church will be Sunday Evening, May 6, 1973, at 7:00 P.M. The contestants are: Miss Angela Mcßride, Miss Desiree Nelson, Miss Thelma Mack , Miss Patrice Washington, Miss Tina Maria Armstrong, Miss Lisa Lilly, Miss Belinda Cofer, Miss Peggy Harmon, Miss Wilhemenia Barber, Miss Elena Hankenson, Miss Shirley Burns, Miss Mary Hankenson, Miss Rebecca Robinson. Highlights of the program will include fashion and talent from the CSRA. The public is invited. Donations one to three dollars. Tickets may be purchased from any member of the Anthem Choir. Today’s Army wants to join you. Name your choice of training. EXCITING JOBS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES No doctor or dentist bills. Thirty days’ paid vacation. Your food is free. FOR MORE INFORMATION, WRITE: call or visit your “Soulful Recruiter” Oliver Brown 700 Telfair Street Augusta, Georgia 30903 Phone: 722-2786 or 724-5864 L. ” < I - < ■ - iu* * ’ /C Page 6 Mclntyre. The new board members were selected from different legislative districts in accordance with the bill creating the board. The six members were sworn in Friday by Judge Frank Peirce during ceremonies held in Superior Court. Earlier in the month of April, Swint was also appointed to the jurist board that selects panelists for jury duty in Richmond County. He is married to Elizabeth Swint and they are the parentsof Gloria and John Jr. once aspired to a singing career, but is considering returning to nursing. Miss Thomas, originally form Atlanta, Ga., majored in speech and drama at Spelman College. The pretty brown-haired actress participated in summer stock and radio and variety programs in Atlanta, before going to New York 10 years ago. Miss Thomas studied speech, dance, mime, music and acting at the American Theater Wing in New York and has appeared in several of Vinnette Carroll’s Urban Arts Corps productions. They include “But - Never Jam Today,” “Moon on a Rainbow Shawl,” “Step Lively, Boys” (formerly titled “Bury the Dear”) and “Croesus and the ttl", 1 -I.:U —l„., ..rVkioVt Wltcn, a CIUIUICII a pay wiuvii toured the streets of New York. At Lincoln Center (New York), Miss Thomas appeared in “Antigone” and “The Duplex”. The actress recently finished a nine-month stint in “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope,” the Obie Award Winning play. Miss Thomas appeared in the film, “The Boston Strangler,” and in NET production of “Masquerade.” She has taught Elias Blake Paine Honors Day Speaker Dr. Elias Blake, president of the Institute of Services to Education and a Paine College alumnus, was the featured speaker Monday at Paine’s annual Honors Convocation held in the Gilbert-Lambuth Chapel. •; Dr. Frank Davis, professor of Biology, was inducted into Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society in recognition of his outstanding service and achievement in his teaching career at Paine College and in research. The Dean’s List of students whose grade point average is 3.3 or better included: Sophomores--Gwendolyn Kenney, Jeanette Ransom, Wanella Watkins and Jerry Welch; Juniors--Emma Abraham, Martha Davis, Roosevelt Dixon, Bertha Dread, Asfaw Fisaha, Joyce Mims, Udo Moses Williams, and Mamie B. Stallings; Seniors--Betty Anderson, Beverly Baber, Roger Davenport, Gwendolyn Fryer, Chauncy Hart, Bernard Hawkins, Sherry Howard, Tommie L. Johnson, Willie Mae Jones, Laverne Lewis, and Joyce Small. Other Honor Roll students are: Freshmen-Barbara Black, Josephine Clark, Rudlolph Coombs, Gwendolyn Elim, Mary A. Harris, Jeanette R. Hawkins, Delores Ann Luttrell, Lfe- MISS MARIE THOMAS dance at community centers throughout New York enjoys crocheting, decorating and enteraining-during her off hours. Marie lives in New Jersey with her husband, their 3-year-old son, and their pet German shepherd, Brutus. Marie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall “Soc” Thomas of Veltre Circle, Atlanta, Ga. The program is viewed in Augusta over WJBF-TV at 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Double Trouble Double Shaft! SHAFT'S his name. I SHAFT'S his game. l> > At 12:30 -4:00- 7:30 * dh -Plus- At (rJ-ss- 2:20-5:50-9:20 Starts 2 For The Price Os 1 During the first part of May, Economy Rexall Drugs will move 3 blocks to 2517 Milledgeville Road Williamsburg Plaza. We invite you to shop with us in this new location where we can give you better sen ice with a larger selection of merchandise and better parking. Thank you for your business, ECONOMY REXALL DRUGS, INC. PHONE 733-2281 Store Hours—Monday thru Saturday 9:00 to 9:00 Closed Sunday 'jK - -;. ■ fl US g 1 DR. ELIAS BLAKE Carlton Lee Richards, Larry Wiley, and LaFayette Williams; Sophomores--Leon Green, Roy Lee Gresham, Victorious Griffin, Dorothy High, Alana F. Hill, Bryon Johnson, Frederick Johnson, Charles King, Richard Larbi, Gail Moore, Johnny Nimes, Shirley Perry, and Jacqueline Reid; Juniors-Robert Bell, Dorothy Burley, JoAnn Grimes, Prince Tommy Inyang, Neva J. Mayweather, Marie Odom, Carol Reeves, Charlene Sims, and Marva Stewart; Seniors--Mary Boston, Betty Brinson, Bobby Copeland, Brenda Davis, Leroy Davis, Lucille Freeman, Larry Hawes, < Delores Johnson, Jerome Jones, Carrie Kendrick, Juanita Lee, Patricia Middleton, Benjamin Pace, Brenda Robinson, Robert Smiley, Janice E. Smith, General Smoot, Mary Stokes, Sheila Tabron, Lucille Turpin, and Celest Williams. Dr. Blake earned his B.A. and M.A. at Paine College and Howard University, and the Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at the University of I Illinois. He has been engaged in extensive research activities and has published widely. Since January, 1966, Dr. Blake has worked with the Institute for Services to Education. This organization was instrumental in developing the Upward Bound Program and in securing federal funds for Black colleges which carried the program. The ISE also generated programs of curriculum reform and innovative programs of teaching and learning in Black Colleges. As President of the Institute for Services to Education, Dr. Blake is developing the Institute into a unique resource for generating more innovative educational programs that may well pull the leadership for the education of all the poor nd the Black in America into the hands of the predominantly Black Colleges. YMCA Executive Praised LaVozier E.S. LaMar, retiring Branch Executive Secretary of the Southwestern Branch of the Greater Newark YMCA, will be cited for outstanding youth leadership by the Augusta/Aiken Reunion Committee at its annual meeting, Sunday, May 6 at 2 p.m. in the Flag Post Motor Inn, South New Brunswick, N.J., according to J. Philip Waring, Stamford, Conn. Urban League Director and chairman of the group. In a special statement Newark mayor, Kenneth Gibson, praised LaMar for 24 years of dedicated service at the Newark YMCA. Mr. Gibson used himself as an example of young people who had been counseled and quided by him at the YMCA. Lamar s also a band master and musician. A native of Augusta, Ga. and a graduate of Lincoln University, Pa., where he was an all-time footbalb great, LaMar also served as assistant director to George Gregory at the Children’s Aid Society in MMfc r ||| JU, ► ~ JSmSmI «• - ’ x___. Mrs. Clara Robinson (L) is among the participants at the anquet of the Naziah Grand Shrine Temple and Daughters of Isis held at the Up-Towner Motor Inn Saturday night. 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He also taught at Haines Institute in Augusta, Ga. A member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and a long-time resident of Brooklyn, he is a widow, has a son, LaVozier,Jr., who is a coach and instructor at Manhattan Community College, and his daughter, Laßeine is a bio-chemist in New York. Waring said that next Sunday’s meeting would also be devoted to the annual reunion of persons from four eastern states and the District of Columbia who are alumni and former students from Haines, Schofield, Bettis Academy, Walker Baptist, Immaculate Conception, Lucy Laney and T.W. Josey high schools, and Paine College. These are the major educational institutions of the Augusta, Ga. and Aiken, S.C. arefl. Tfie public is invited. [ Police Report | By R. L. Oliver KIDNAP TRY FOILED - WOMAN RUNS AWAYs, Elizabeth Black of 1931 Starnes Street told Augusta Police an unknown male, 19 to 23 years old, tried to force her to get into his car with a gun, but she ran away. Miss Black said she was walking east on the 1900 block of Starnes Street when a man driving a 1969 yellow Datsun stationwagon approached her. The man, brandishing a gun, ordered her into the car twice before she ran between two houses. She told police she saw the car leaving, traveling south on the 700 block of Eve Street. The incident occured Wednesday night. BOYS CLUB OFFICES BURGLARIZED Paul Cooper, a worker for the Augusta Boys Club, 1903 Division Street, reported a burglary of the club’s offices Thursday. Cooper stated someone had broken in a window, entered, ransacked the office and damaged several filing cabinets. Cooper also reported the loss of a Silvertone radio, a flashlight, a ladies tote bag, a tool case and a 6-inch wrench. FISHING TACKLE STOLEN - 19 YEAR OLD CHARGED L.C. Scofield, of 1216 Holley Street returned home from work Wednesday to find that his fishing equipment valued at sl2l was missing. Neighbors told police of a young man who lives at 1235 Augusta Ave. entering Scolfield’s home, Police officers and Scolfield went to the Augusta Ave. address where the victim identified his equipment. Arrested and charged with the felony, theft by taking - over SIOO, was Cleveland Bryant, 19, of the Augusta Ave. address. STOLEN MOTOR GRADER Aiken County sheriffs deputies received reports of a road grader being taken from a construction site Wednesday. The grader was discovered missing by a security guard of the Fox Construction Company, which is working on the by-pass southwest of Aiken. The heavy vehicle was later found several miles away where someone abandoned it. MAN ARRESTED FOR FORGERY Richmond County sheriffs deputies arrested Herbert Kirkland of 2526 Blackstone Dr., charging him with first degree forgery. Augusta Police arrested Nathaniel M. Stewart, 40, of 923 Broad Street, on a charge of theft by conversion. He was released on SSOO bond. 26 YEAR OLD MAN HANGS HIMSELF - CITY JAIL A twenty six year old man hung himself th death with his shirt to the Augusta City Jail on Ninth Street Tuesday morning. Ronnie Blackwood of 458 Greene Street was found hanging by his neck, in his cell early Tuesday morning. Blackwood had been arested several hours earlier and charged with late hours. He was pronounced dead on arrival at University Hospital.